Never has there been a year that we have looked forward to seeing the end of the year more than 2020. For all of the negatives one of the rare bright spots has been the music. As the world went through harrowing times, the artists of the world delivered some of the best albums and songs in recent memory.
We’re going to be talking through our collective top albums of the year on our December podcast. Ahead of that we thought we would share our personal top 10 albums and our favourite tracks of the year, which we’ve created a playlist for all to enjoy!
Nolan
Top 10 Albums
1. Sault – Untitled (Black Is)
2. Run The Jewels – RTJ4
3. Caribou – Suddenly
4, Marlowe – Marlowe 2
5. Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher
6. Royce 5’9 – the Allegory
7. Sa Roc – The Sharecropper’s Daughter
8. Romare – Home
9. Mac Miller – Circles
10. Dua Lipa – Future Nostalgia
Favourite tracks of the year (in no particular order)
Royce 5’9 – Tricked
Aesop Rock – Drums On The Wheel
Phoebe Bridges – Garden Song
Sa Roc – deliverance
Troy Kingi – All Your Ships Have Sailed
Jayda G – Both Of Us
Disclosure – Tondo
Michael Mayer – Higher
Run The Jewels – Ooh La La
Marlowe – Otherworld
Guy
Top 10 Albums
1. Sault – Untitled [Black Is]
2. Caribou – Suddenly
3. Sault – Untitled [Rise]
4. Róisín Murphy – Róisín Machine
5. Run the Jewels – RTJ4
6. Kelly Lee Owens – Inner Song
7. Jessie Ware – What’s Your Pleasure
8. Doves – The Universal Want
9. Laura Marling – Song For Our Daughter
10. The Vision – The Vision
Favourite tracks of the year (in no particular order)
Yves Tumor – Gospel For A New Century
Khruangbin – Time (You and I)
SAULT – Don’t Shoot Guns Down
Róisín Murphy; Soulwax – Something More – Soulwax Remix
Holy Fuck; Alexis Taylor – Luxe
Caribou – Home
Mim Suleiman – Mingi
Katy J Pearson – Take Back The Radio
Doves – Prisoners
Run The Jewels – JU$T
Joey
Top 10 Albums
1. Sault – Untitled (Black Is)
2. Caribou – Suddenly
3. Run The Jewels – RTJ4
4. Laura Marling – Song for our Daughter
5. Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher
6. Kevin Morby – Sundowner
7. US Girls – Heavy Light
8. Mac Miller – Circles
9. J HUS – Big Conspiracy
10. Sevdaliza – Shabrang
Favourite tracks of the year (in no particular order)
Run the Jewels – JU$T
Kevin Morby – Sundowner
Home – Caribou
Perfume Genius. – Your body changes everything
U.S. Girls – 4 American Dollars
Laura Marling – Held Down
Nilufer Yanya – Crash
La Vita Nuova – Christine and the Queens
So We Don’t Forget – Khruangbin
Lamp Lady – Sevdaliza
David
Top 10 Albums
1. Sault – Untitled (Black Is)
2. Caribou – Suddenly
3. Run the Jewels – RTJ4
4. Waxahatchee – Saint Cloud
5. Roisin Murphy – Machine
6. US Girls – Heavy Light
7. Loma – Don’t Shy Away
8. Jessie Ware- What’s Your Pleasure?
9. Fleet Foxes – Shore
10. Songhoy Blues – Optimisme
Favourite tracks of the year (in no particular order)
Run The Jewels – JU$T (feat. Pharrell Williams & Zack de la Rocha)
Róisín Murphy – Something More – Extended Mix
Arlo Parks – Black Dog
The Weeknd – Blinding Lights
Waxahatchee – Fire
Anderson .Paak – Lockdown
Katy J Pearson – Take Back The Radio
Marlowe; L’Orange; Solemn Brigham – Future Power Sources
SAULT feat. Michael Kiwanuka – Bow
Sylvan Esso – Ferris Wheel
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WHAT a selection of music this is.
Been looking through my AOTY from the last few years, and I have to say, I think this is the strongest year there’s been for a while. Having said that, I think that outside the top albums, there was a lot of pretty ordinary stuff. But the best was really fantastic.
Agreed; it was a really good year for albums.